A mother’s closure: Inside the foster home where Kanina Sue Turtle died by suicide
It’s a foster home Barbara Suggashie could never go in – until this week.
It’s a foster home Barbara Suggashie could never go in – until this week.
Barbara Suggashie is walking 320 kilometres to the foster home in Sioux Lookout where her daughter Kanina Sue Turtle took her own life. As she walks, Suggashie is wondering what she is going to say when she gets to the home.
It’s about 314 kilometres from Red Lake to Sioux Lookout, where Kanina died.
An investigation into the deaths of children living in residential care, including seven Indigenous children, has found potential criminality.
Kanina Sue Turtle’s family say they’ve been left in the dark for over 16 months.
“So quit cutting yourself so you don’t have to come here,” Tikinagan worker says four days before suicide.
Kanina Sue Turtle died by suicide Oct. 29, 2016 and recorded it on her iPod.
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